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The organization that arranges and conducts examinations to determine the competence of specialists in psychiatry and neurology and various sub-specialties in psychiatry such as child psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and forensic psychiatry.  

A U.S. professional organization established in 1975 for the medical subspecialty of sleep medicine.  

A professional organization founded in 1969 for psychiatrists dedicated to excellence in practice, teaching, and research in forensic psychiatry.  

Established in 1953, american academy of child and adolescent psychiatry is a professional membership association dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents ages 18 years and younger who are affected by emotional, behavioral, developmental, and mental disorders.  

An international professional organization founded in 1985 for physicians who specialize in addiction psychiatry.  

Subnormal development of the mind, with particular reference to intellectual capacities. A type of severe intellectual disability. Inferior mental capacity originating before or shortly after birth, dementia; retardation. Failure of development of the intellectual faculties.  

A disturbance (also known as affective motor aprosodia) characterized by loss of melody or emotional intonation when speaking. The result is a seemingly emotionless response easily misinterpreted as depression.  

The coexistence of contradictory emotions, attitudes, ideas, or desires with respect to a particular person, object, or situation. Ordinarily, the ambivalence is not fully conscious and suggests psychopathology only when present in an extreme form. Simultaneous attractions to and repulsion from an object, person, or situation. The condition of holding opposite feelings (such as love and…

A nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic medication used in the short-term treatment of insomnia. The brand name for zolpidem.  

The fear of dust.